CVE-2003-0547: Gnome Gdm

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GDM before 2.4.1.6, when using the "examine session errors" feature, allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the ~/.xsession-errors file.

Affected products

• Gnome Gdm: version 2.4.1 only; version 2.4.1.1 only; version 2.4.1.2 only; version 2.4.1.3 only; version 2.4.1.4 only; version 2.4.1.5 only; …
• Red Hat Kdebase: version 2.4.0.7.13 only; version 2.4.1.3.5 only

Published 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.